Irish Boxing

Olympic tickets go on sale today lads. I reckon barnes will be the best bet for a medal so I'm going for the last 16 and the last 8 of the 49kg. this includes light welther and the good thing is that it also includes light heavy and hopefully ward, egan or mccarthy should be there. £20 last 16 and £30 last 8

 

not gonna lie to you lads i am starting to get a little bit excited about April 16th:happy

 

Feck that with March 19 just 4 days away...

 

Having bowed to severe pressure from Jonny I've reintroduced the audio bar on irish-boxing.com.

Steve has produced a demo of the old radio show we used to do, and I've fired up the February 2009 show as well as an archive interview with Bernard Dunne from 2008 to give you a bit of an idea of the type of thing we will hopefully be producing in the coming months.

If you've any ideas give me, Jonny or Steve a shout.

 

Macklin to fight Gevor on 4/16

By James Slater: Today in the city of Manchester,

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hosted a press conference to announce the under_card to the April 16th Khan V McCloskey card at The MEN Arena.

The big news was the announcement that Matthew Macklin will be facing Khoren Gevor in a

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eliminator for the WBA middleweight belt currently held by Felix Sturm.

This fight will almost certainly prove to be a good action affair - has Macklin ever been in a dull fight? But, as well as this big elimination bout, Hatton Promotions also have a number of other value for

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bouts set.

Unbeaten heavyweight hope Richard Towers, recently called out by Tyson Fury, (Towers told this writer be sees a fight between he and the fellow giant as "inevitable") will face a TBA, and Craig Watson, Scott Quigg, Martin and

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will also be in action.

Hatton announced how over 12 thousand tickets have already been sold for the "Return of The Khan" and with a stacked supporting card all set, fans are in for a potentially good night of

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Full interview with Macklin to follow. ​

 

Lads check out www.irish-boxing.com- has a new podcast complied by the brilliant Steve Wellings. INterviews with Casey, Fitzy, Sutcliffe, Khan and McCloskey.

Watch this space more to come, please forgive any entries not compiled by Steve for the lack of a southing, professional and (according to a female colleague) somewhat sexy voice.

 

Casey winds up training
14 March 2011 - Jonny Stapleton WBA Interim World title challenger, Willie Casey brought to an end a gruelling 10 week training camp with a public workout in a buzzing Crumlin gym yesterday, but stressed Gulliermo Rigondeaux will ensure the real hard work will have to be done over 12 rounds in City West this coming Saturday.
The Limerick southpaw has trained like a man possessed as he bids to take the WBA super bantamweight world title from the man Katie Taylor labelled ‘The Ghost's’ grasp. In fact ’Big Bang’ has been so explosive in sparring and so eager to train that he was in danger of peaking too early, forcing coach Phil Sutcliffe to pull in the reins over the last week. However, despite putting in more hard labour over the last two months than he ever did in years perfecting his previous welding trade, Casey is aware the real graft and toil awaits.
The inspirational Southhill slugger knows he will have to register his best ever shift if he is to beat the two time world and Olympic gold medallist, who is also renowned as the greatest amateur of all time.
“I have worked as hard as ever. I have pushed my body to inhuman levels and it is at a standard it was never at before. I am prepared to go 12 rounds. I am ready for whatever pace the fight is at. I am not sure if he will be,” Casey said.
“I am feeling confident now. My level of fitness is unreal. I have prepared so well that I have to be confident. I have put the effort in and I just want to get in the ring now. I know there is still a lot of work ahead. All the training is good and it prepares you for the fight, but it's on the night of the fight and when you get into the ring that you have to the business. He is a world class operator I have to admit that. He is a world champion and he is unbeaten in hundreds of amateur fights. I can accept that he is a quality operator and that I have my work cut out for me, but I will be prepared for it.”
Casey admits he will have to put in a tough innings if he is to claim the belt that once sat proudly around the waist of Bernard Dunne, but he will do his best to ensure he isn’t the only one putting in the toil in the biggest fight to come to Ireland since the Dunne’s era.
“Everything up until now has worked for Rigondeaux. He is a champion but it has been easy for him especially in the pro game. That will change for him come March 19, that is were I come in. He is very readable and I am always learning and developing and you will see an improved Willie Casey on Saturday.”
Meanwhile, Katie Taylor will fight an exhibition bout on the show’s under card, giving Irish fight fans the chance to see both the man deemed as the greatest amateur of all time and the female equivalent.

 

thats a good scrap:good

 

Sickened Macklin won't get to fight on American tv but it could have been worse. Gevor fight should be a good scrap. Hopefully he gets a crack off Sturm if he beats him. It's an even fight, neither guys have looked all that great lately so it will probably come down to who wants it more. If it's close the judges should favour Macklin.

 

Macklin is taking a big chance fighting Gevor but its an opponent who should get him a world title shot with a win. It could be a make or break fight

 

who does he fight if he wins eliminator
ndam golovkin or sturm wba are a fookin farce to be honest

 

McGuigan explains why Frampton turned down the chance to fight Kiko Martinez

http://www.irish-boxing.com/stories/march11/mar11_kiko_frampton.html

 

I think a WBA superchampion does not have to fight any mandatories, That rules out Sturm. Maybe however that has changed since every WBA division now has a super champion:huh:huh:huh.

 

Katie Taylor on the dolphil card ?

 

yup :good